DOS ain't dead - int 15/4f French keyboard driver ready + Now what? *

int 15/4f French keyboard driver ready + Now what? * (Developers)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 11.05.2011, 20:12

> Hi Rugx !
> > ... (retyping since browser deleted my post, gah) ...
> Ouch...! Which browser was that ? Arachne doesn't play such bad tricks on
> me :)

It was Chrome. Who knows, maybe BTTR timed out on me, but I couldn't "back" to retrieve my message (sigh). Oh well, it wasn't anything irreplaceable.

> > Can't test, no French keyboard, no parlais francais,
>
> :=)

"Your mouth says no, but you have 'oui oui' in your eye."

> > so your best bet is to
> > wrap it up and/or ask for help on comp.os.msdos.programmer,
> comp.lang.misc,
> > comp.lang.asm.x86, or similar.
>
> Methinks I don't need /that/ level of help. Was looking for testers;

Well, I figured some of them could test, esp. since the Internet is very polyglotish.

> The HMA option is what I would do next if my time (and lifeline) weren't
> as compromised as they are. This thing is an ideal candidate for filling
> a hole in said HMA. Do you know if FreeDOS implements the same API than
> MSDOS 5+ for internal HMA alloc (int 2F/4A0x IIRC) ? DRDOS certainly has
> a similar, but alas! different scheme (or had, I never went passed DRDOS
> 6)

I honestly don't know. But I know people have complained that FreeDOS eats all HMA thanks to bugs (or simplified handling?). E-mail Tom Ehlert I guess (or maybe Jack Ellis?).

> > Isn't FFK (Dugl dude) French? Maybe he could help. :-)
>
> Sorry, don't know him or Dugl, my bad.

He comes on here (BTTR) sometimes! Sorry, just grasping at straws, trying to help.

> > You could also ask on freedos-user or freedos-devel (or me in your place
> if
> > you aren't subscribed).
>
> Seems to be a good plan; I am not subsribed, not a FreeDOS user or
> contributor. I would appreciate your submitting the propsition there,
> you may of course post the download URL to freedos.devel, if you do please
> be sure to tell them I'll be clearing the copyright/license.

I'll message them today, but I don't know what "clearing" needs to be done, Japheth already made it worry-free. ;-)

> >> host the finished app? Is Bttr-software (Rr?) a possibility ?
>
> > Dunno about BTTR, they seem perennially busy. But (assuming it's
> > free/libre, which is a rule Jim Hall is strict about), I could always
> > announce it on FreeDOS' main News page (and/or mirror on iBiblio if I
> can
> > ever figure out how the hell to scp a file there via ssh, ugh!)
>
> Yet a good plan, only wait till it's final. of course!

Still waiting for (the ever busy) Jim Hall to tell what how I am misunderstanding file transfer in ssh. I guess I should Google some more, but whatever little I did try definitely didn't work. :-P

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Complete thread:

int 15/4f French keyboard driver ready + *Ping Japheth* - Ninho, 27.04.2011, 13:34
- int 15/4f French keyboard driver ready + *Ping Japheth* - Japheth, 27.04.2011, 16:02
  - int 15/4f French keyboard driver ready + *Ping Japheth* - Ninho, 27.04.2011, 17:13
    - int 15/4f French keyboard driver ready + *Ping Japheth* - Japheth, 28.04.2011, 07:47
- int 15/4f French keyboard driver ready + Now what? * - Ninho, 10.05.2011, 13:30
  - int 15/4f French keyboard driver ready + Now what? * - Rugxulo, 10.05.2011, 23:52
    - int 15/4f French keyboard driver ready + Now what? * - Ninho, 11.05.2011, 13:38
      - int 15/4f French keyboard driver ready + Now what? * - ecm, 11.05.2011, 19:39
        int 15/4f French keyboard driver ready + Now what? * - Ninho, 12.05.2011, 10:56
        int 15/4f French keyboard driver ready + Now what? * - bretjohn, 12.05.2011, 17:13
        int 15/4f French keyboard driver ready + Now what? * - Ninho, 12.05.2011, 22:27
        AMIS, Optimize memory usage - ecm, 13.05.2011, 00:24
        AMIS, Optimize memory usage - Ninho, 13.05.2011, 01:33
        AMIS, Optimize memory usage - ecm, 13.05.2011, 01:45
        AMIS, Optimize memory usage - Ninho, 13.05.2011, 02:07
        AMIS, Optimize memory usage - ecm, 13.05.2011, 02:39
        AMIS, Optimize memory usage - Ninho, 13.05.2011, 02:58
        Correction, memory usage - Ninho, 13.05.2011, 02:50
        Memory usage, AMIS(!) - ecm, 13.05.2011, 03:00
        Memory usage, AMIS(!) - Ninho, 13.05.2011, 11:57
        Memory usage, AMIS(!) - ecm, 13.05.2011, 14:51
        Memory usage, AMIS(!) - bretjohn, 13.05.2011, 17:43
        Memory usage, AMIS(!) - Ninho, 13.05.2011, 18:15
        Memory usage, AMIS(!) - Japheth, 13.05.2011, 18:58
        Memory usage, AMIS(!) - bretjohn, 14.05.2011, 01:42
        Memory usage, AMIS(!) - Ninho, 14.05.2011, 11:38
        Sorry error :) - No contents - Ignore - Ninho, 14.05.2011, 11:41
        Memory usage, AMIS(!) - bretjohn, 15.05.2011, 17:26
        Int15 handler example: IISP; chain other functions directly - ecm, 15.05.2011, 18:30
        Int15 handler example: IISP; chain other functions directly - Ninho, 16.05.2011, 03:49
        Memory usage, AMIS(!) - Ninho, 15.05.2011, 20:57
        In reply to Bret - int 15/4F stuff - Ninho, 16.05.2011, 03:35
        In reply to Bret - int 15/4F stuff - Japheth, 16.05.2011, 10:18
        In reply to : Bret 'll have to hate FreeDOS mKEYB, too - Ninho, 16.05.2011, 12:19
        In reply to : Bret 'll have to hate FreeDOS mKEYB, too - tom, 16.05.2011, 13:35
        In reply to : Bret 'll have to hate FreeDOS mKEYB, too - Ninho, 16.05.2011, 15:10
        In reply to : Bret 'll have to hate FreeDOS mKEYB, too - tom, 16.05.2011, 17:13
        In reply to : Bret 'll have to hate FreeDOS mKEYB, too - bretjohn, 16.05.2011, 19:50
        In reply to : Bret 'll have to hate FreeDOS mKEYB, too - tom, 16.05.2011, 21:06
        In reply to : Bret 'll have to hate FreeDOS mKEYB, too - bretjohn, 17.05.2011, 18:10
        In reply to : Bret 'll have to hate FreeDOS mKEYB, too - tom, 17.05.2011, 19:47
        In reply to : Bret 'll have to hate FreeDOS mKEYB, too - bretjohn, 18.05.2011, 02:09
        In reply to : Bret 'll have to hate FreeDOS mKEYB, too - Japheth, 18.05.2011, 06:47
        In reply to : Bret 'll have to hate FreeDOS mKEYB, too - bretjohn, 18.05.2011, 19:08
        In reply to : Bret 'll have to hate FreeDOS mKEYB, too - tom, 18.05.2011, 12:35
        In reply to : Bret 'll have to hate FreeDOS mKEYB, too - bretjohn, 18.05.2011, 18:14
        In reply to : Bret 'll have to hate FreeDOS mKEYB, too - tom, 19.05.2011, 15:32
        In reply to : Bret 'll have to hate FreeDOS mKEYB, too - Rugxulo, 19.05.2011, 22:42
        Keyboard, codepages... - Ninho, 19.05.2011, 23:41
        FreeDOS DISPLAY (TSR vs. device driver?) - ecm, 20.05.2011, 14:09
        In reply to : Bret 'll have to hate FreeDOS mKEYB, too - Ninho, 19.05.2011, 23:59
        In reply to : Bret 'll have to hate FreeDOS mKEYB, too - tom, 20.05.2011, 00:49
        In reply to Bret... - Ninho, 18.05.2011, 15:41
        DOS IO kernel part hooking Int15.4F ? - ecm, 18.05.2011, 20:35
        DOS IO kernel part hooking Int15.4F ? - Ninho, 18.05.2011, 22:41
        DOS kernel, Int15.4F - ecm, 18.05.2011, 22:48
        In reply to Bret... - tom, 19.05.2011, 15:15
        In reply to \\\ Tom... - Ninho, 19.05.2011, 19:27
        AMIS, Optimize memory usage - Japheth, 13.05.2011, 07:28
        AMIS, Optimize memory usage - Ninho, 13.05.2011, 11:27
        AMIS, No flaming - ecm, 13.05.2011, 00:24
        AMIS - ecm, 13.05.2011, 00:24
        AMIS - Ninho, 13.05.2011, 02:21
        AMIS, Ciriaco - ecm, 13.05.2011, 03:23
        AMIS, Ciriaco, Ralph ? - Ninho, 13.05.2011, 12:16
      - int 15/4f French keyboard driver ready + Now what? * - Rugxulo, 11.05.2011, 20:12
        int 15/4f French keyboard driver ready + Now what? * - Ninho, 12.05.2011, 10:36